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1898 - 1992
Alfred Joseph Casson was born in Toronto in 1898. Rous and Mann, a commercial art firm, hired Casson in 1919 at the age of 21 where he apprenticed to Franklin Carmichael.
The weekends were soon taken up by sketching trips with Carmichael, one of the founders of the Group of Seven. The additional members were introduce to Casson and in 1926 he formally accepted into the Group after the resignation of Frank Johnston. Previous to this, Casson, Carmichael and F.H. Brigden established the Ontario Society of Painters in Water Colour in 1925. After a time painting with Carmichael, Casson realized he needed a direction of his own and focused on villages and the rural setting in central and southern Ontario. In 1933, after their last group exhibition and J.E.H. McDonald's death, the group disbanded and made way for The Canadian Group of Painters, of which Casson was a founding member. Casson married in 1924 and a few years later built a beautiful Georgian style house in north Toronto and had one daughter. Casson was made and Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979. Casson has pioneered the principals of serigraphy as a creative medium more than any other artist in Canada. In 1926 he created his first serigraph. A.J. Casson had a long career of over 70 years creating images and recording the landscape, villages and rural communities. |
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